Biden Considering Commuting the Sentences of All 40 Federal Death Row Inmates

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is trying to reverse a military tribunal's plea deal with lawyers for the terrorists that would take the death penalty off the table.
49% : During his first term, Trump allowed the executions of 13 inmates to go forward.
40% : But by taking these men off of death row, he would be nullifying the decisions of juries and judges who were far more familiar with the details of these cases than some Justice Department lawyers.
37% : Joe Biden is considering the commutation of all prisoners on death row in federal prisons before he leaves office, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
29% : There are currently 40 federal inmates on death row and Biden wants to commute all their death sentences to life in prison without parole.
25% : Since Trump was elected, religious groups, civil rights groups, and anti-death penalty activists have initiated a full-court press in lobbying the White House to get Biden to commute the sentences of federal death row inmates.

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